I could have sworn I’d posted in a topic like this before, but I clearly haven’t posted in this one, so I might as well have a go!
I’ve currently done 113 coasters. I’ve ranked all of the coasters I’ve ridden, and I’ve also rated them all out of 10 to give a rough idea of “tiers”. As such, I’ll contribute all of the coasters I rated 2/10 or lower into this, which as of right now is everything ranked #99 or lower.
Without further ado, then, my “worst” coasters are as follows:
99) Euro Mir - Europa Park: This might surprise some, as I know it’s quite well liked in many circles, but I found Euro Mir horrible. It was brutally rough every time it tried to twist or turn a corner, and while it had forceful moments, I didn’t even find the layout to be anything overly interesting. It’s definitely Europa Park’s weakest link for coasters, for me. 2/10
100) Grand National - Blackpool Pleasure Beach: Grand National has a decent layout, but my last experience on there was just ridiculously rough. It was absolutely brutal to the point where roughness and being battered was pretty much the overriding sensation throughout the ride. It’s a few spots higher than it might have been due to its decent layout and actually having some half-decent airtime, but it was just so, so horrifically rough and brutal in a way that totally ruined the ride for me. 2/10
101-107) Reverchon spinning wild mice - Various: I’ve ridden 7 of these coasters, and I don’t like them at all. I’m not a fan of the harsh laterals the wild mouse ride type provides, and while these aren’t quite as bad as some of the standard wild mouse genre, I still don’t like them. These coasters are also often very rough and janky even putting aside the laterals, and on the whole, I’m not a fan of this common clone. In terms of specific ones, I’ve found them to vary slightly, with Crazy Coaster at South Pier Blackpool ranked highest at #101 and one side of the late Primeval Whirl ranked lowest at #107, but these are only subtle differences, and I find them all pretty awful. 2/10
108) Bulldog Coaster - Brean Theme Park: I was not a fan of this one, I’m afraid. While it’s an admittedly impressive headliner for a park of Brean’s calibre, I found it very rough and I found the ride car horrifically cramped and uncomfortable. I’m not exactly tall at only 5’10”, but I found the OTSR really tight and I found the ride car horribly cramped to sit in, which really exacerbated every bump on the ride. 2/10
109) Steeplechase (Right) - Blackpool Pleasure Beach: I admit that Steeplechase is unique, and the racing element is good fun, but I’m afraid that I just didn’t overly enjoy it at all. I found it very uncomfortable and found the harsh laterals painful, and I found it to have few redeeming features aside from uniqueness to make up for this. 2/10
110) Rattlesnake - Chessington World of Adventures: Similarly to the Reverchon spinning coasters above, I don’t like the wild mouse ride style, and on my one ride back in 2014, I remember this being a particularly bad example of it. I remember finding it very rough with the harsh laterals and braking, and I have distinct memory of coming off it with a bright red elbow from being slammed into the side of the car repeatedly! 2/10
111) Sand Serpent - Busch Gardens Tampa: Similar to above, except this one had some particularly vile braking that really hurt and lowered it another level beyond Rattlesnake. I sorry to say that I don’t miss it now it’s gone. 2/10, but I was mildly tempted to go to 1/10 because of the awful braking.
112) Infusion - Blackpool Pleasure Beach: Standard layout SLCs have been long hyped as awful, and this did not disappoint in that regard. The layout isn’t half-bad, to be fair, but my word, the headbanging and roughness was just completely relentless, and it was horrible… 1/10
113) Hero - Flamingo Land: Hero is an interesting one to have at rock bottom, because I’d actually argue that while undeniably rough, it isn’t as traditionally rough as some of the coasters ranked above it… but I’m sorry to say that I just found the whole setup completely grotesque. I don’t massively rate flying coasters at the best of times, but I found the car on Hero to make the B&M Flying Coaster trains feel like a B&M Hyper with clamshell restraints. Clambering onto a ladder, haphazardly putting your head through a hole and having a weird flimsy panini press mechanism holding you in is not comfortable in the slightest, and it is made even more uncomfortable by being flung around the really rough, tight turns in the layout. Hero is undeniably… different, but I’m sorry to say that it wasn’t for me at all. 1/10
